The most important teaching from Genesis chapter one is that God... ELOHIM... created the Universe and everything in it . And not just created everything in it but exactly as He said He did . In s
ix earth rotation 24hr days .
The Hebrew word here in Genesis 1 is YOM , the same word YOM is used throughout this chapter and it is to be interpreted within the context it is being used . The context is not saying that YOM in this account is with reference to anything over one earth rotation day .
We would recognize ourselves that if we were to say "In my fathers DAY people wore silly hats " this would be speaking of a time period longer than an earth rotation day of 24 hours , and could be any length of time up to the length of life of your father and people wearing silly hats .
Now the context of Genesis 1 as stated is one earth rotation ,24 hour day for each of the creation days spoken of .
If we look at the first day of creation we see the context clearly stating and supporting this :
Genesis 1:3 And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. 4And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness. 5God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.
We have the word YOM = DAY
We have evening .
We have morning .
On each creation day we see this usage of words and language used YOM , EVENING AND MORNING also with the number of each day of creaton 1-6 .
It is clear to us that when we separate any period of time by evening and morning and rotate back to evening and morning that we are talking of one earth rotation day . And this is the interpretation that is meant to be taken of Genesis Chapter one .
Genesis 1:3 And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. 4And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness. 5God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.
The following is by Oxford Hebrew scholar, Professor James Barr, on the meaning of Genesis
‘… probably, so far as I know, there is no professor of Hebrew or Old Testament at any world-class university who does not believe that the writer(s) of Genesis 1–11 intended to convey to their readers the ideas that:creation took place in a series o...f six days which were the same as the days of 24 hours we now experience the figures contained in the Genesis genealogies provided by simple addition a chronology from the beginning of the world up to later stages in the biblical storyNoah’s flood was understood to be world-wide and extinguish all human and animal life except for those in the ark.’
James Barr, Oriel Professor of the interpretation of the Holy Scripture, Oxford University, England, in a letter to David C.C. Watson, 23 April 1984
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Luther said :
“When Moses writes that God created heaven and earth and whatever is in them in six days, then let this period continue to have been six days, and do not venture to devise any comment according to which six days were one day. But if you cannot understand how this could have been done in six days, then grant the Holy Spirit the honor of being more learned than you are. For you are to deal with Scripture in such a way that you bear in mind that God Himself says what is written. But since God is speaking, it is not fitting for you wantonly to turn His Word in the direction you wish to go.”
—What Luther Says. A Practical In-Home Anthology for the Active Christian, compiled by Ewald M. Plass, Concordia, 1959, p. 93.
The Hebrew word here in Genesis 1 is YOM , the same word YOM is used throughout this chapter and it is to be interpreted within the context it is being used . The context is not saying that YOM in this account is with reference to anything over one earth rotation day .
We would recognize ourselves that if we were to say "In my fathers DAY people wore silly hats " this would be speaking of a time period longer than an earth rotation day of 24 hours , and could be any length of time up to the length of life of your father and people wearing silly hats .
Now the context of Genesis 1 as stated is one earth rotation ,24 hour day for each of the creation days spoken of .
If we look at the first day of creation we see the context clearly stating and supporting this :
Genesis 1:3 And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. 4And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness. 5God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.
We have the word YOM = DAY
We have evening .
We have morning .
On each creation day we see this usage of words and language used YOM , EVENING AND MORNING also with the number of each day of creaton 1-6 .
It is clear to us that when we separate any period of time by evening and morning and rotate back to evening and morning that we are talking of one earth rotation day . And this is the interpretation that is meant to be taken of Genesis Chapter one .
Genesis 1:3 And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. 4And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness. 5God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.
The following is by Oxford Hebrew scholar, Professor James Barr, on the meaning of Genesis
‘… probably, so far as I know, there is no professor of Hebrew or Old Testament at any world-class university who does not believe that the writer(s) of Genesis 1–11 intended to convey to their readers the ideas that:creation took place in a series o...f six days which were the same as the days of 24 hours we now experience the figures contained in the Genesis genealogies provided by simple addition a chronology from the beginning of the world up to later stages in the biblical storyNoah’s flood was understood to be world-wide and extinguish all human and animal life except for those in the ark.’
James Barr, Oriel Professor of the interpretation of the Holy Scripture, Oxford University, England, in a letter to David C.C. Watson, 23 April 1984
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Luther said :
“When Moses writes that God created heaven and earth and whatever is in them in six days, then let this period continue to have been six days, and do not venture to devise any comment according to which six days were one day. But if you cannot understand how this could have been done in six days, then grant the Holy Spirit the honor of being more learned than you are. For you are to deal with Scripture in such a way that you bear in mind that God Himself says what is written. But since God is speaking, it is not fitting for you wantonly to turn His Word in the direction you wish to go.”
—What Luther Says. A Practical In-Home Anthology for the Active Christian, compiled by Ewald M. Plass, Concordia, 1959, p. 93.
http://gen1rev22.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/teaching-concerning-days-of-creation-as.html
http://gen1rev22.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/it-means-what-it-says-and-fossil.html
http://creation.com/6000-years
http://creation.com/is-the-seventh-day-an-eternal-day
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